Henry Gutterson was born in 1884 in Minnesota. He
graduated from Berkeley High School in 1903, and from the
University of California, Berkeley, School of Architecture in
1905 and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1906
to 1909. After a brief stay in New York working for Grosvenor
Atterbury, Gutterson returned to California in 1910 marrying
Helen Arnett a year later.

He worked for John Galen Howard on the Panama-Pacific
Exposition and St. Francis Wood and for the City of Oakland
before opening his own practice in 1914. Gutterson's major
projects include the duplexes and cottages along Rose Walk,
75 houses in St. Francis Wood where he was supervising
architect, The Christian Science Benevolent Society, Arden
Wood in San Francisco and many Christian Science churches. He
worked with Bernard Maybeck on several projects including
churches the First Church of Christ Science Sunday School and
the Principia College Library (Elsah, Illinois). He also
designed a number of other buildings at Principa College.

Gutterson taught briefly at the University of California
from 1910 to 1911, and from 1920 to 1921. He was active in
civic planning, and was a member of the Berkeley Planning
Commission and the co-founder and president of the Berkeley
Planning and Housing Association. From 1927 to 1930, he
served as president of the Sierra Nevada chapter of the
A.I.A. In 1946 Gutterson received an award from the A.I.A.
for his contributions to the unification of the
profession.

Scope and Content

The Henry Gutterson collection contains original drawings,
blueprints, and specifications relating to residential and
church designs. Projects in the collection include the First
Church of Christ, Scientist (Santa Barbara), the Berkeley
High School auditorium, Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist
(San Francisco), and the Principia College library
(Illinois). The sketches include a portrait, a landscape, and
a detailed pencil drawing of the Notre Dame cathedral. The
collection also contains blueprints and trace drawings from
2922 Garber Street (Berkeley) that were donated separately.
Gutterson drawings for the First Church of Christ, Scientist
(Berkeley) can be found in the Bernard Maybeck
collection.